IELTS Essay # 38 - Nowadays businesses face problems with new employees who just finished their education and lack some interpersonal skills such as the ability to work in a team. What do you think is the main cause of the problem? How can it be resolved?

Essay # 38

Nowadays businesses face problems with new employees who just finished their education and lack some interpersonal skills such as the ability to work in a team. What do you think is the main cause of the problem? How can it be resolved?

The modern workforce faces a serious problem — many of today’s graduates don’t have the basic skills they need to succeed at entry-level positions in the workforce. The main reason can be pinpointed towards universities that fail to train their students adequately. This reason shall be discussed further, following some potential solutions.

Interpersonal skills are the tools people use to interact and communicate with individuals in an organizational environment. Young adults entering the workforce are reported to have problems extending beyond the academic level. Employers complain that they lack many applied skills, such as the ability to work well in teams, communicate effectively, and uphold a professional demeanour, adding that this unpreparedness harms the day-to-day productivity of businesses.

What is unsettling is that universities - the places that are expected to train you for the real job environment, are not placing enough emphasis on critical thinking or independent research skills, resulting in delivering aspirants devoid of the necessary soft skills. A productive solution at this level can be to administer implemented skills assessment tests, after requisite training for the same of course, that students must pass before they can graduate and be recruited.

Another approach can be of businesses and colleges partnering, to help ensure that students gain the real-world experience and hard skills that employers require. While soft skills are difficult to grade and assess, it is critical that students be made aware of how their behaviour should match the expectations of employers.

In closing I’d say, interpersonal behavioural development is a complex phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common. Practical solutions need to be put into effect to improve non-cognitive skills in the employees for yielding an efficient workforce.

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